Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 14
He took the end of the thorn in his fingers; then he gave a strong, quick pull, and out it came.
Who acts: Androclus, thorn · What happens: take, give, come · To what, where: end, fingers, strong quick pull
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Androclus, thorn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 thorn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thorn | det |
| 7 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fingers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 gave | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pull | det |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pull | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strong | punct |
| 18 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pull | amod |
| 19 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 came | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Androclus | the end of the thorn | Androclus's fingers | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Value in finger=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | Androclus | a strong quick pull | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | thorn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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